Microsoft – Azure DevOps Engineer Role

1. Implementing DevOps Development Processes

Module 1: Getting Started with Source Control

Lesson 1: What is Source Control
Lesson 2: Benefits of Source Control
Lesson 3: Types of Source Control Systems
Lesson 4: Introduction to Azure Repos
Lesson 5: Migrating from TFVC to Git
Lesson 6: Authenticating to Your Git Repos

Module 2: Scaling Git for Enterprise DevOps

Lesson 1: How to Structure Your Git Repo
Lesson 2: Git Branching Workflows
Lesson 3: Collaborating with Pull Requests
Lesson 4: What Care about GitHooks
Lesson 5: Fostering Internal Open Source
Lesson 6: Git Versioning
Lesson 7: Public Projects
Lesson 8: Files in Git

Module 3: Implement and Manage Build Infrastructure

Lesson 1: The Concept of Pipelines in DevOps
Lesson 2: Azure Pipelines
Lesson 3: Evaluate the use of Hosted vs Private Agents
Lesson 4: Agent Pools
Lesson 5: Pipelines and Concurrency
Lesson 6: Azure DevOps and Open Source Projects
Lesson 7: Azure Pipelines YAML vs Visual Designer
Lesson 8: Setup Private Agents
Lesson 9: Integrate Jenkins with Azure Pipelines
Lesson 10: Integration External Source Control with Azure Pipelines
Lesson 11: Analyze and Integrate Docker with Multi-stage Builds

Module 4: Managing Application Config and Secrets

Lesson 1: Introduction to Security
Lesson 2: Implement Secure and Compliant Development Processes
Lesson 3: Rethinking Application Config Data
Lesson 4: Manage Secrets, Tokens, and Certificates
Lesson 5: Implement Tools for Managing Security and Compliance

Module 5: Implement a Mobile DevOps Strategy

Lesson 1: Introduction to Mobile DevOps Strategy
Lesson 2: Introduction to Visual Studio App Center
Lesson 3: Manage Mobile Target Device Sets and Distribution Groups
Lesson 4: Manage Target UI Test Device Sets
Lesson 5: Provision Tester Devices for Deployment
Lesson 6: Create Public and Private Distribution Groups

2. Implementing Continuous Integration

Module 1: Implementing Continuous Integration in an Azure DevOps Pipeline

Lesson 1: Continuous Integration Overview
Lesson 2: Implementing a Build Strategy

Module 2: Managing Code Quality and Security Policies

Lesson 1: Managing Code Quality
Lesson 2: Managing Security Policies

Module 3: Implementing a Container Build Strategy

Lesson 1: Implementing a Container Build Strategy

3. Implementing Continuous Delivery

Module 1: Design a Release Strategy

Lesson 1: Introduction to Continuous Delivery
Lesson 2: Release Strategy Recommendations
Lesson 3: Building a High Quality Release Pipeline
Lesson 4: Choosing a Deployment Pattern
Lesson 5: Choosing the Right Release Management Tool

Module 2: Set up a Release Management Workflow

Lesson 1: Create a Release Pipeline
Lesson 2: Provision and Configure Environments
Lesson 3: Manage and Modularize Tasks and Templates
Lesson 4: Integrate Secrets with the Release Pipeline
Lesson 5: Configure Automated Integration and Functional Test Automation
Lesson 6: Automate Inspection of Health

Module 3: Implement an Appropriate Deployment Pattern

Lesson 1: Introduction into Deployment Patterns
Lesson 2: Implement Blue Green Deployment
Lesson 3: Feature Toggles
Lesson 4: Canary Releases
Lesson 5: Dark Launching
Lesson 6: AB Testing
Lesson 7: Progressive Exposure Deployment

4. Implementing Dependency Management

Module 1: Designing a Dependency Management Strategy

Lesson 1: Introduction
Lesson 2: Packaging Dependencies
Lesson 3: Package Management
Lesson 4: Implement a Versioning Strategy

Module 2: Manage Security and Compliance

Lesson 1: Introduction
Lesson 2: Package Security
Lesson 3: Open Source Software
Lesson 4: Integrating License and Vulnerability Scans

5. Implementing application infrastructure

Module 1: Infrastructure and Configuration Azure Tools

L01: Infrastructure as Code and Configuration Management
L02: Create Azure Resources using ARM Templates
L03: Create Azure Resources using Azure CLI
L04: Create Azure Resources by using Azure PowerShell
L05: Additional Automation Tools
L06: Version Control

Module 2: Azure Automation

L01: Azure Automation
L02: Azure Automation State Configuration (DSC)

Module 3: Azure Compute services

L01-Infrastructure as a Service
L02-Platform as a Service
L03-Serverless and HPC compute services
L04-Azure Service Fabric
L05-Azure Kubernetes Service
L06-Application Architecture models
L07-Choosing a Compute Service

Module 4-Third Party and Open Source Tool integration with Azure

L01-Chef with Azure
L02-Puppet with Azure
L03-Ansible with Azure
L04-Cloud-init with Azure
L05-Terraform with Azure

Module 5-Compliance and Security

L01-Security and compliance in the pipeline
L02-Azure security and compliance tools and services

6. Implementing Continuous Feedback

Module 1: Recommend and Design System Feedback Mechanisms

Lesson 1: The Inner Loop
Lesson 2: Continuous Experimentation Mindset
Lesson 3: Design Practices to measure End-User Satisfaction
Lesson 4: Design Processes to Capture and Analyze User Feedback
Lesson 5: Design Process to Automate Application Analytics

Module 2: Implement Process for Routing System Feedback to Development Teams

Lesson 1: Implement Tools to Track System Usage, Feature Usage, and Flow
Lesson 2: Implement Routing for Mobile Application Crash Report Data
Lesson 3: Develop Monitoring and Status Dashboards
Lesson 4: Integrate and Configure Ticketing Systems

Module 3: Implement and Manage Build Infrastructure

Lesson 1: Site Reliability Engineering
Lesson 2: Analyze Telemetry to Establish a Baseline
Lesson 3: Perform Ongoing Tuning to Reduce Meaningless or Non-actionable Alerts
Lesson 4: Analyze Alerts to Establish a Baseline
Lesson 5: Blameless Post-Mortems and a Just Culture

7. Designing a DevOps Strategy

Module 1: Planning for DevOps

Lesson 1: Transformation Planning
Lesson 2: Project Selection
Lesson 3: Team Structures

Module 2: Planning for Quality and Security

Lesson 1: Planning a Quality Strategy
Lesson 2: Planning Secure Development

Module 3: Migrating and Consolidating Artifacts and Tools

Lesson 1: Migrating and Consolidating Artifacts
Lesson 2: Migrating and Integrating Source Control